Emmet Gowin Quotes

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• I need to say to you. There are things in your life that only you will see, stories that only you will hear. If you…
• You’re always working at the margin of what you don’t understand, that’s the only exhilarating place to be. To just illustrate what you already know…
• Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t see.
• We tremble at the feelings we experience as our sense of wholeness is reorganized by what we see.
• For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.
• The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us
• All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand.
• As a good picture would come, I would never know exactly what I had done. When you did see it, it would strike you as…
• Of course, this is one of the really important things about art, that you can make more than you can understand at the moment the…
• It might take us a lifetime to find out what it is we need to say. Most of us fall into where our feelings are…
• The authentic thing is to follow your heart, your instincts, your emotions. If you located yourself in an idea, your life would be lived very…
• The picture is like a prayer, an offering, and hopefully an opening through which to seek what we don't know, or already know and should…
• This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand.
• I feel that whatever picture an artist makes it is in part a picture of himself - a matter of identity.
• What's great is that the picture is already taken before it goes public. It's in secret. The trust that develops from such a habit engenders…
• Twentieth-century art has allowed me to see things in a cryptic way. I love the butterfly's wings, which disappear when folded and when open leave…
• I am pessimistic about a picture's power to be the emissary of just one thing. What I hope is that the picture says, "Here I…
• I was going round the world searching for an interesting place, when I realized that the place that I was in was already interesting.
• I made 10 times as many images as the other students," he says of the early years. "I destroyed all those negatives except a few.…

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